Indirect single transferable voting

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Indirect single transferable votingWaqar, M. (2020). Gender Quotas and Political Dynasties: Explaining Women's Substantive Representation in Pakistan's National Assembly (Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University). or Gove system[https://www.jstor.org/stable/1009042?seq=1 The Proportional Representation Congress Stoughton Cooley The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science Vol. 4 (Nov., 1893), pp. 112-117 (6 pages)][https://www.sightline.org/2018/02/01/my-big-bold-ranked-choice-voting-proposal/ My big, bold ranked-choice voting proposal] is a version of single transferable vote (STV), where the vote transfer is determined by the candidate's instructions and not the individual voters choices.

Indirect STV was invented by Walter Baily, of Leeds, and put forward in his 1872 book PR in Large Constituencies.Baily's book online:

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044080049836&seq=12

Massachusetts legislator William H. Gove of Salem and Archibald E. Dobbs of Ireland, author of Representative Reform for Ireland (1879), both were early and strong supporters.Hoag, Effective Voting (1914)Gove, William H. 1894. “The Relation of the Gove System to Other Methods of Proportional

Representation.” Proportional Representation Review 2, no. 6 (December 1894): 41–7.[https://jacksantucci.com/docs/papers/partyattack.pdf In America, why does proportional voting have to attack political parties? Jack Santucci, April 5, 2018]

Indirect single transferable voting is distinct from an indirect election by the single transferable vote, which means an election by a legislative body or electoral college (instead of the enfranchised population) using the standard (direct) single transferable vote system. Indirect election using STV is used among others in some states of India and for election of some positions within the national assembly.{{Cn|date=May 2024}}